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Forms of Prayer to Be Used at Sea

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Forms of Prayer to Be Used at Sea

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ex 17:10-12

O Eternal Lord God, who alone spreads out the heavens, and rules the raging of the sea; who has compassed the waters with bounds until day and night come to an end: Be pleased to receive into your Almighty and most gracious protection the persons of us your servants, and the Flee…

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Forms of Prayer to Be Used at Sea

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

2 sam 22:48-50

Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings, with your most gracious favour, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name, and finally by your mercy obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lor…

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Prayers to be used in Storms at Sea

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

gen 18:14

O most powerful and glorious Lord God, at whose command the winds blow, and lift up the waves of the sea, and who stillest the rage thereof; We your creatures, but miserable sinners, do in this our great distress cry unto you for help: Save, Lord, or else we perish. We confess, w…

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Prayers to be used in Storms at Sea

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

1 chron 29:11

The living, the living, shall praise you. O send your word of command to rebuke the raging winds, and the roaring sea; that we, being delivered from this distress, may live to serve you, and to glorify your Name all the days of our life. Hear, Lord, and save us, for the infinite…

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Prayers to be used in Storms at Sea

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

1 chron 29:11

O most glorious and gracious Lord God, who dwell in heaven, but behold all things below: Look down, we beseech you, and hear us, calling out of the depth of misery, and out of the jaws of this death, which is ready now to swallow us up: Save, Lord, or else we perish.

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The Prayer to be said before a Fight at Sea against any Enemy

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ex 15:11

O most powerful and glorious Lord God, the Lord of hosts, who rule and command all things: You sit in the throne judging right, and therefore we make our address to your Divine Majesty in this our necessity, that you would take the cause into your own hand, and judge between us a…

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General Prayers

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 6:4

Lord, be merciful to us sinners, and save us for your mercy's sake.

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General Prayers

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

2 chron 20:6

You are the great God, who has made and rules all things: O deliver us for your Name's sake.

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General Prayers

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 9:13-14

You are the great God to be feared above all: O save us, that we may praise you.

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Special Prayers with respect to the Enemy

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

deut 32:4

You, O Lord, are just and powerful: O defend our cause against the face of the enemy.

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Special Prayers with respect to the Enemy

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 61:3

O God, you are a strong tower of defence to all that flee to you: O save us from the violence of the enemy.

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Special Prayers with respect to the Enemy

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 34:17-18

O do not suffer us to sink under the weight of our sins, or the violence of the enemy.

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Short Prayers in respect of a Storm

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

1 kings 18:37

You, O Lord, who still the raging of the sea, hear, hear us, and save us, that we perish not.

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Short Prayers in respect of a Storm

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

1 chron 16:35

O blessed Saviour, who did save your disciples ready to perish in a storm, hear us, and save us, we beseech you.

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Short Prayers in respect of a Storm

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 6:2

Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.

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Short Prayers in respect of a Storm

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 6:2

O Lord, hear us. O Christ, hear us. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, have mercy upon us, save us now and evermore. Amen.

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Short Prayers in respect of a Storm

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

luke 11:2-4

Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be your Name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us fr…

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Short Prayers in respect of a Storm

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ezra 10:11

Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men; We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against your Divine Majesty, Provoking most j…

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Short Prayers in respect of a Storm

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

rom 6:4

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who of his great mercy has promised forgiveness of sins to all those who with hearty repentance and true faith turn to him; Have mercy upon you; pardon and deliver you from all your sins; confirm and strengthen you in all goodness; and bring you…

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Psalm 66

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

psalm 66:1-20

O be joyful in God, all lands: sing praises unto the honour of his Name, make his praise to be glorious. Say unto God, O how wonderful are you in your works: through the greatness of your power shall your enemies be found liars unto you. For all the world shall worship you: sing…

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Psalm 107

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

psalm 107:1-43

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endures for ever. Let them give thanks whom the Lord has redeemed: and delivered from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west: from the north, and from the south. Th…

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Collects of Thanksgiving

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

gen 14:20

O most blessed and glorious Lord God, who are of infinite goodness and mercy: We your poor creatures, whom you have made and preserved, holding our souls in life, and now rescuing us out of the jaws of death, humbly present ourselves again before your Divine Majesty, to offer a s…

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Collects of Thanksgiving

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

2 sam 22:11-20

O most mighty and gracious good God, your mercy is over all your works, but in special manner has been extended toward us, whom you have so powerfully and wonderfully defended. You have shown us terrible things, and wonders in the deep, that we might see how powerful and gracious…

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A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 95:1

O come, let us give thanks to the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endures for ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; let the redeemed of the Lord say so: whom he has delivered from the merciless rage of the sea. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion: sl…

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A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

2 cor 13:14

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

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After Victory or Deliverance from an Enemy

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 124:1-6

If the Lord had not been on our side, now may we say: if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up quick: when they were so wrathfully displeased at us. Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul: t…

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After Victory or Deliverance from an Enemy

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

2 chron 20:6

O Almighty God, the Sovereign Commander of all the world, in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand: We bless and magnify your great and glorious Name for this happy Victory, the whole glory whereof we ascribe to you, who are the only giver of Victory. And,…

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After Victory or Deliverance from an Enemy

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

2 cor 13:14

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

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At the Burial of their Dead at Sea

Book of Common Prayer (1662, Church of England) • 1662 • 17th Century

ps 88:6

We therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the Sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who at his coming shall change our vile body, that it may be…

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